<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391089" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>With Trumpet and Drum</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With big tin trumpet and little red drum,<br>Marching like soldiers, the children come!<br>It 's this way and that way they circle and file---<br>My! but that music of theirs is fine!<br>This way and that way, and after a while<br>They march straight into this heart of mine!<br>A sturdy old heart, but it has to succumb<br>To the blare of that trumpet and beat of that drum! <br>Come on, little people, from cot and from hall---<br>This heart it hath welcome and room for you all!<br>It will sing you its songs and warm you with love,<br>As your dear little arms with my arms intertwine;<br>It will rock you away to the dreamland above---<br>Oh, a jolly old heart is this old heart of mine,<br>And jollier still is it bound to become<br>When you blow that big trumpet and beat that red drum! <br>So come; though I see not his dear little face<br>And hear not his voice in this jubilant place,<br>I know he were happy to bid me enshrine<br>His memory deep in my heart with your play---<br>Ah me! but a love that is sweeter than mine<br>Holdeth my boy in its keeping to-day!<br>And my heart it is lonely---so, little folk, come,<br>March in and make merry with trumpet and drum!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eugene+Field">Eugene Field</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391089" data-title="With Trumpet and Drum de Eugene Field" data-description="With big tin trumpet and little red drum, Marching like soldiers, the children come! It 's this way and that way they circle and file--- My! but that music of theirs is fine! This way and that way, and after a while They march straight into this h..."></div> </div> </div>

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